Chapter 149 – The Night Before the Storm (9)
Chapter 149 – The Night Before the Storm (9)
“Ugh, ugh…”
“You’re waking up now.”
It’s been less than half a day since I lost consciousness. In the dark night when the sun went down, Lua grunted and opened her eyes.
Instinctively trying to open her eyes, she heard someone’s presence in her ears. At least there was a familiar voice.
Eventually, Lua, who fully opened her eyes, woke up inside an ordinary house. Lanterns giving off warm light were illuminating the interior of the house.
“Fa, alive.”
In her confusion, she hurriedly groped herself. Surprisingly, she was fine with no scorched spots anywhere, and she wasn’t tied up anymore.
It was neither a dream nor an illusion. It was a clear reality.
“But if you do nonsense, you won’t have any more chances.”
Leon, who was watching her, looked down at her and smiled at her. She gnashed her teeth at the mere sound of Leon’s voice, which had started her bad acting from their first meeting, but now she only glared at her with her eyes, rather her body shrank.
Because the figure of the huge tree was still visible through the window.
“The Queen herself came forward and appealed to Heaven to save your life.”
“Why the hell?”
“Ruri asked for your life on the condition that you sincerely repent.”
Leon revealed to Lua, who was still wary of herself, that she was Ruri’s husband. Naturally, she was surprised and her eyes widened. It wasn’t as much as the power of God that I saw with my own eyes, but the identity of the opponent who fought to kill each other until the very moment was definitely a shocking fact.
“After you were knocked out by my attack, I tried to slit your head, but Ruri hurriedly ran and asked for your life. He said that even though you are human, you are his colleague who knows justice and manners.”
“…I didn’t expect you to say so well. Where is ruri? She met her family again, whom she had been looking for so long.”
“I didn’t come here, I stayed. I mean, I have work to do.”
As Lua seemed to be finding some stability through her story of Ruri, Leon slowly brought her to the point. She plans to take Lua into her Eden and make her an ally.
“Everyone hopes for mercy, and in fact, God has shown mercy and saved your life, who was suspicious and hostile to us. Lives were saved, but not all responsibility was taken away.”
“Do you want me to defect and join your side? What do you believe in me? I am the person you hate.”
“You seem to be mistaken, but we are not blindly hostile to humans.”
Lua asked back as if she was being ridiculous at Leon’s request for her cooperation, but instead Leon laughed at her.
Rua’s eyes twitched when she said that he wasn’t blindly hostile to humans.
“That is not wrong. The god in the sky is not only the god of us elves.”
“Ah…”
Then another elf entered the room they were in. The elder elf with gray hair and wrinkles from aging started to calmly enter and offer Lua a cup of hot tea.
Tina, who was also in charge of recording history, began to properly explain what her Eden was like to Lua, who was hit by a storm that even a small amount of water could not withstand in a short time.
“I understand roughly what is going on. Why am I being given another chance?”
After that, she corrected her posture for over an hour and after listening to Tina’s explanation, Lua understood her circumstances.
Of course, even if her life was saved, and even if she directly witnessed the power of God moving the world, her heart was not completely cheered up yet.
First of all, rather than a voluntary belief, I was repulsed because it was nothing more than a threat to die if I didn’t follow it, and even if I knew it in my head, it took time for my unconscious to completely change, so it was probably natural.
“I barely survived the punishment, but I can’t have a foolish heart.”
“Sir…”
However, her body trembled as Leon brought back her intensely embedded memories. Whether she is a rational judgement or a habit carved into her body, in the end, the fear engraved in her bones works steadily.
It was also because she didn’t dare to say that the power of the heavenly gods could not work outside of Eden.
“Outside it is known that we kidnapped you and that Luli is trying to save you. Now you go back to Ruri and come back naturally. You just have to testify to your superiors and colleagues that Ruri saved you from being dragged away by us.”
“You’ve already guessed everything.”
Lua frowned when she heard Leon’s plan to use her thoroughly, but that was all she did. In the end, Lua, she was brought back to Eden, and she was brought out again one day later. Unlike when she was brought in, she was not even bound this time and she walked out on her own feet.
‘Nonsense.’
Lua was horrified to see that the big world she was in was nothing more than a forest and a small crack in the rocks near the waterfall that she could see from the outside.
It would be impossible to find out where this place is in this huge forest without a map. In reality, she had to wait patiently, stomping her feet, until her Lurie came to pick her up.
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“Did you find the human knight properly?”
“Yes. I even saw him meeting Ruri again.”
“In the meantime, I was frustrated because there was no way to know the central meeting or the internal affairs of people, but a good opportunity arose.”
After Lua left Eden. Leon came back to Serenian, who was taking a break, and informed him that Lua, who had left Eden, had met Ruri and started to return.
However, Serenian smiled bitterly when he saw Leon’s stiff face. He reunited with the wife he had been looking for so long, but he decided that it was bothering him that he couldn’t be with him right away.
“Since the situation is the situation, she understands Ruri’s feeling that she wants to step out more. So it’s not because of that.”
But Leon denied her guess. It is true that he was taken aback by the 20-year-old age difference and by the appearance of his wife, who had always depended on him and had a deep heart, who seemed to have changed somewhere.
“As the human knight Lua said, the number of impure elements invading the Great Forest through another human kingdom bordering the Great Forest is increasing. They randomly plunder the herbs they need, burn forests, and harm and kidnap residents. On the pretext of blocking such people, the general conscripted his own people and drove them to the battlefield, but for some reason he was not responding properly. Even we can’t stand still, my queen.”
“You mean we have to punish those who call themselves thieves.”
Serenian’s eyes twinkled at Leon’s confidant. He insisted that he put all his energy into fighting parasitic bees and building a city, but Leon had to risk it and take action.
‘It could be the final blow.’
However, Serenian saw more than just loyalty or kinship in Leon’s proposal.
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What if Eden steps in and subdues them and rescues the captives while the people who have joined hands with the central council are instigating Eden as a reactionary force and a gangster who are backed by enemy countries and playing havoc?
The human forces, including the elder Ersilla, will completely lose public sentiment within the Great Forest.
“I want to immediately send an army to attack them, but unfortunately, the most important thing to us, the Sky Clan, is to defend this land.”
“That is…”
“This will require a meeting. Conclusions will come quickly, so you won’t have to wait too long.”
Serenian also did not want to miss this suitable opportunity. In the end, notifying her to reconvene the meeting, she let Leon go and got up from her seat.
‘Why are you still standing still? It was a crazy way, but he obviously meant it when he told me that it was for everyone.’
Serenian looked out the window at the scenery outside the room left alone and bit her lip.
The world in the flower pot, Eden is changing so rapidly and turbulently that even Seung-hyeon cannot know its future, but the purpose of Serenian, who is leading them, has been clear from the moment they achieved the basic condition of survival.
To overthrow Captain Ersilla. At the time of Erscilla’s coup right before her expulsion, Erscilla, who had fought with the determination to kill himself and had fallen to his knees with overwhelming power, stood up against himself with sincerity, without any lies or wavering, so Serenian was rather embarrassed.
But if Ersilla was sincere at that time, it makes no sense for her to remain so still now. They even made an army of elves, all of whom said they were good at handling mana, and wasting time like this.
She defined Erscilla as corrupt and talked about it, but unconsciously, she compared many parts of her unconscious to Erscilla, and she thought that Erscilla, which she had set as the great mountain she had to overcome, was insignificant. I didn’t want to fall down as a junkie.